I found a very touching article now making the rounds in the Facebook network. It’s an article entitled “Imagine a world without Filipinos” and it’s written in an Arab press channel (looks like a magazine). In the article, the author relates how immensely important Filipinos are to their country as well as to the rest of the world. He goes on to say that they are very dependent on the Filipinos around them and that they could all die a slow day if the Filipinos choose to leave them. This is an excellent tribute to our OFWs out there and I just couldn’t resist posting about it here in this blog.
Here’s a scanned photo of the article for your reading pleasure:
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Some staggering facts that really made an impact on me while reading the article:
23% of the world’s total number of Nurses are Filipinos
20% of the world’s seafarers are Filipinos
If Filipinos disappeared from the place of the planet tomorrow, the world economy would literally be paralyzed. We play an important role in the grand scheme of things people. So always be proud when you’re in another country.
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Seems fitting for “Where I come from, everybody’s a hero.” In the Kingdom and elsewhere, Filipinos continue to be heroes and inspire people like this writer.
bravo Filipinos….
Very well true. I can’t remember where I heard or read something similar but it goes something like this: “If Filipinos disappear from the face of the planet, the World Economy will halt.”
Excellent find!
This is a heartwarming story, something that Filipinos need after the recent tragedy that the country experienced. I plan to post the story in my blog too. This will surely uplift the hearts not only of Filipinos working abroad, but also the families of OFWs here in our country. Thanks for this inspiring post.
YES! to all those comments! Even in my former workplace in Uptown Chicago, the most well-loved Program Director was a Filipino and the best teachers were Filipinos. Mabuhay tayong mga Filipino!! We’re really good! :=)God bless!!!
Nice. How I wish more Filipinos would soon realize this. Ako ay Pilipino, taas noo kahit kanino!
Bravo Filipino! Sadly, the competent and professional Filipino is highly employable anywhere in the world except in his own country. Imagine what a great Philippines we could have if we could just afford to keep all these highly intelligent and skilled Pinoy workers in the country. We shouldn’t be all too happy that their hard earned remittances is what’s keeping our economy afloat. Our next president must find a way to keep them home and yet prosper with good-paying jobs.
yan ang pinoy!
Proud to be one! \m/
hello carlo,
i got to your post and site through a posting i got from a friend in my facebook page. i knew your grandfather well having covered him throughout his entire stint at the senate.
to get to the post above, i used to joke some of my foreigner friends about Filipino OFWs and it goes this way:
first we help design and build your roads, streets, homes, bridges, buildings, ports, generally the infrastruture you need to exist as a country.
a bit later we send over our bankers, writers, journalists, artists, accountants, entrepreneurs, academicians, basically to give you the stuff you need to sustain yourself as a nation.
at about the same time, we start sending over our doctors, nurses, medical technologists, para-medical staff, transcriptors basically to keep you healthy and alive.
oh and by the way, we send over our teachers so they can work as your househelp while they double up as pseudo-nannies teaching your children how to read, write, speak english properly… basically the same stuff the next generation needs to prepare them to take over the nation when you get old and retire.
and incidentally, we send over as well quite a lot of our young girls, in their teens in fact, to keep house for you… basically because we just can’t entrust in your hands the houses, the buildings, the engineering feats, the economy and the nation we built for you.
some take the joke laughing, others feel slighted…
bongga talaga pinoy!
so many similar stories around the world but undocumented.this is the first step to document filipino heroism in foreign land.how we wish that same commitment, dedicaTION,PASSION are practiced in our homeland, thus it will be a better place to live
so true!!!
Thanks for the post.I’m gonna share this to my friends in FB.
This is so true. We are the most dominant among the nationalities all over the world. Different nations are building their homes through us. Well known to our patience, dedication and resourcefulness many foreign people want our services. Even in the field of outsourcing. Most of them wants to have a Filipino as an agent to work for their online businesses. Compared to our foreign counterparts, they always loved to work with us. We understand English very well that results to a lesser maximum supervision needed.
hurray!
proud to be Pinoy! soar high Pinoy!
world without erap!